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SHUTER & DAVIS.

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Patented May 31,1881.

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MICHAEL SHUTER AND ABRAHAM DAVIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TIP FOR INSOLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 242,382, dated May 31,1881.

Application filed May 2, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MICHAEL SHUTER and ABRAHAM DAVIS, both citizens ofthe United States, residing at New York, in the county and State ofNewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tips for theInsoles of Boots and Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tips for the insoles of boots and shoes, andis an improved manufacture, consisting of a tip formed of muslin or thelike, stiffened with shellac or other similar material, and pressed intoshape.

Prior to our invention a tip for the insole of boots and shoes has beenmade of leather, and usually in one piece with the insole, the tip beingbeveled to a fine edge at the top. This mode of producing the tip,however, is objectionable,becanse requiring skill and considerablelabor.

By our invention we are enabled to produce a tip which is sufficientlythin to require no beveling, and at the same time is suflieiently rigidfor all purposes.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 represents a vertical cross-section of the tip. Fig. 2 is aplan view thereof. Fig. 3 shows it attached to the insole. Figs. 4 and 5illustrate the process of making the tip, Fig. 5 being a section on theline a0 00, Fig. at.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In carrying out our invention we take a piece of muslin or other textilematerial and (Model.)

coat the same with shellac to render the same stiff or rigid. Then,having allowed the shellac to dry, we place the material between heateddies, the form of which is such that the material is thereby pressedinto the general shape of a series of tips, as at A Figs. 4 and 5. Wethen subject the pressed or molded material to the action of cutters,whereby it is severed, as along the dotted lines shown in Fig. 4, andthe portions A are separated from each other, each constituting a tip,A, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, suitable for the insole B of a boot or shoe.

It will be seen that the tip formed in this manner requires no beveling, the material used being sufficiently thin, while it possesses similaror superior rigidity to a leather tip, so that while the cost of itsmanufacture is comparatively low it is an effective substitute for theleather article.

WVhat we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture, a tip for the insole of boots andshoes formed of textile material stiffened with shellac and pressed intoshape, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

MIOHAEL SHUTER. [L. s.] ABRAHAM DAVIS. [L. s.] Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, OTTO HUFELAND.

